Debt Amounts Are Rapidly Increasing: Estonia’s Largest Private Individuals Payment Default Analysis
Estonia’s largest financial services infrastructure company, Aktiva Finance Group, compiled a comprehensive overview of Estonians’ debt behavior. Aktiva Finance Group assesses individuals’ creditworthiness and manages overdue credit portfolios through OÜ Krediidiregister and OÜ Julianus Inkasso. In today’s economically challenging times, we decided to assess the situation in early December, in addition to our regular spring […]
New financial service Perfi takes the stress out of paying monthly invoices
Paying monthly invoices has become easier for Estonians because they can now do it through Perfi, the personal finance platform that has become customers’ favorite in Lithuania. A Norstat survey commissioned by Perfi found that Estonians’ biggest concern when dealing with invoices is that they arrive at different times and through different channels. The new […]
Merle Laurimäe: the current economic situation is just the beginning of hardship
The current economic situation is only a light preview of what the near future will bring, says Merle Laurimäe, CEO and Member of the Management Board of Julianus Inkasso, a subsidiary of Aktiva Finance Group. According to the CEO, 2019 will likely remain the peak of the “good times” for a long time to come, […]
Merle Laurimäe joins the board of Julianus Inkasso as the new CEO
The board of Julianus Inkasso, the Baltics’ leading debt collection services provider, has grown. Merle Laurimäe, the current head of debt collection products, has joined the board as the company’s new CEO. Oliver Markvart, the previous CEO of Julianus Inkasso, will continue as a board member and the CEO of Aktiva Finance Group. “Julianus Inkasso […]
Aktiva Finance Group subsidiaries were included in the Gaselli TOP 500 fastest-growing enterprises list
On February 15, the companies with the fastest growth in the past year were recognized at the 23rd Gaselli Kongress. These companies have seen a 50% increase in business profit and sales revenue over the last three years. Aktiva Finance Group subsidiaries Krediidiregister OÜ and Julianus Inkasso entered the TOP 500 this year by reaching […]
The Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority recognized Perfi as a licensed service provider
After achieving significant success in Lithuania, the invoice payment platform Perfi will launch in Estonia in the first quarter of 2023. The company recently got the license to operate in Estonia when the Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority recognized the license given to Viena Saskaita UAB from the Bank of Lithuania. Perfi was also registered […]
Taust.ee CEO Art Andresson: The first signs of anxiety are here, and people are taking more caution with loan decisions
Art Andresson, the CEO of our subsidiary, Estonia’s biggest payment default database Taust.ee, went on Äripäev’s Triniti radio last week to talk about private individuals’ payment defaults and problems related to disclosing debt data. In the talk, Art explained what payment default databases are and the current direction of debts in the looming threat of […]
Aktiva Finance Group has been awarded prestigious acknowledgments
Aktiva Finance Group has had a remarkable year of growth in 2022, which reflects in being recognized by noteworthy awards. The company placed 29th on the Äripäev’s TOP successful Estonian enterprises list, debuted as one of Estonia’s TOP 101 most valuable enterprises, and achieved a Gazelle enterprise acknowledgment. Last year, Aktiva Finance OÜ was 101st […]
Your clients will never be late paying their invoices again: a new free personal finance platform is launching in Estonia soon
In a few months, Perfi, a service for sending and managing invoices that has been wildly successful in Lithuania under the brand name Viena sąskaita, will be available to companies in Estonia. The innovative platform allows businesses to send digital invoices without a fee and manage payments so they can receive them quickly and without […]
Estonian statistics: companies with tax debts and payment defaults have become the new norm
According to data published by Taust.ee, the number of businesses struggling to pay their taxes has increased greatly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and shows no sign of dropping back down to pre-pandemic levels. In addition to a significant rise in tax debtors, there has also been a decrease in businesses that can […]